[OSM-talk] Cycle route planning using OSM

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

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Tom Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm new here, but recently attended the Open Knowledge Forum event in 
> London, and enjoyed hearing about OpenStreetMap's efforts. I was even 
> more amazed to see the level of detail that places like Cambridge and 
> Loughborough are at!
> 
> What I'm here to ask is whether there's any interest in putting cycle 
> route information onto OSM. Properties such as 
> bikelane_exists=yes;bikelane_hours=24h;trafficdensity=low - that sort of 
> thing, as well as putting on useful nodes such as bike parking.
> 
> I ask because there's a group in the US working on the ByCycle Trip 
> Planner (http://trac.bycycle.org/wiki). I'm trying to assess the 
> feasibility of using OSM data with their route finder to build a system 
> for town/city cycle route planning.
> 
> Is anyone already working on anything in this realm? Could a working 
> group of interested people within OSM come up with some kind of 
> standards to aid the mapping of this data? Do you want to help?

We've just been discussing:
http://www.camcycle.org.uk/map
over on talk-gb.

Robert (Jamie) Munro
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